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Kata

Girls' name

Possibly Hecate or each of the two, through Katariina

Kata has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Kata, 2011

1 in 732,000

Kata over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kata: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly Hecate or each of the two, through Katariina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kata means

Kata belongs to the name family reached through Kata → Katariina → Katarina → Αἰκατερίνη. Its meaning is “Hecate or each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kata is used in Finnish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katariina, Katalin, Katarina, Katarína and Αἰκατερίνη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Kata is pronounced /ˈkɑtɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 53 girls were recorded with the name Kata between 1974 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1994; its best national rank was #9,372 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kata?

Kata had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kata sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kata was born before 2002 — so the typical Kata is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
53
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Kata rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (6)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,372
1974

Spellings of Kata

Kata is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 9.9% against Kata's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Kata around the world

Where Kata ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1952–1963
    #644
    in 1963

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kata by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,372
1974
Peak year
1994
6 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kata

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kata

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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